The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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CHURCH CHOIR SINGING is becoming quite an
industry in New York city. The churches there
employ over 1900 women and pay them for
| choir singing
ONE bather at Ocean Grove, a correspondent
declares, has a bathing dress that will present
! her as female MephistopheIes- red dress,
| stockings sandals and little horned cap on her
| head.
DUKE CHARLES THEODORE, of Bavaria, brother
| of the Empress of Austria, during a recent
| brief stay at Meran, made no less than 220 sue
cessful operations at the Eye Infirmary of that
| town.
JUST on the outskirts of Ann Arbor, Mich
where the blaze of intellectual light from the
university is most binding, a sign may be seen
which reads: mo swimin aloud On These
primisis."
THE people of Carson valley Nevada, have a
very scant supply of water; grapes, it is OBJ
served, grow there without irrigation, and
| make excellent wine, which serves as a substi-
tute for water.
A PIN-wHEEL tore loose from its fastenings
at Dayton, O., on the Fourth of July, and after
making one or two revolutions in mid-air bore
straight into Joseph Gluck'S eye, entirely ex-
tinguishing the sight.
TwENTY-oNE THOUSAND NAMES were signed in
five days to the invitation of Kansas City asking
President Cleveland to come to see that thriving
town. The invitation is to be Superbly engraved
and bound in Russian leather. 1t will cost 81 200
OVER 5000 acres of land are given over to
mule raising by a California man. There are
several thousand head of stock on the ranch
winch extends into Oregon, and the business is
considered much more profitable by the owner
than horse breeding
The advance of education in India is marked
by the postoffce statistics for the ten years
ending March 81, 1886 The number of letters
increased from 100000 to 100000 per an
num- and the increase in the number of news
| papers sent was no less than lis per cent.
IT is true that Francis Wilson, the Casino
comedian, receives S475 per week the year round
Off the stage he is a quiet, reserved man, abste
| mious and parsimOniOus in his habits and
| rarely found away from home Only the large
salary keeps him from trying his fortune by
starring
THE Russian Finance Minister has. it is said
| proposed means Of obtaining money which
| some people think will be approved by the Car
| The proposition is to take from the churches
and converts all the treasures which do not
| serve for daily ritual and give for them per
cent. bonds
FEW debutantes have made more decided
| success in London than was won by Miss Amelia
| GrOll of Cleveland Ohio She appeared at
| Drury Lane recently as Marguerite in Gounod's
FauSt, and carried the audience almost by storm.
| She has MezzosOprano voice of great volume
notably strong in the upper register.
SHIN DAN, or Lew Bev was said to be the
principal founder of Chinese Freemasonry in
| China. He was wise man and the Chinese
Free MaSons almost recognize no other God
| The majority of them believe Shin Dan and
| Shon Ii God to be the same thing. His birth
day is considered the most important event of
the year among the order.
AT THE Fourth of July celebration in DanvilIe
ILL.,, Miss Maggie Lingenfelter won a fine dress
pattern by Harvesting horse and hitching him
TO buggy in less than two minutes. Mrs
Shelby Cooper, of Stilesville, won twenty-five
| yards or carpet by showing up family of thir-
teen children, eleven of them under p years.
| Her husband is Methodist preacher.
In England the other day an old farmer was
the plaintiff in a case. He was very deaf II
cannot bawl here all day in this hot weather -
| exclaimed the Judge, and he at once dismissed
the case. Commenting upon this Labouchere
wlttlly declares that the country will have to
| return to the Persian SyStem-fay Judge and
cover the chair of his successor with his skin -
On her way from Balmoral to Windsor to at
| tend the jubilee, Queen Victoria was stopped
by swarm of bees. 1t was at night. The bees
had swarmed in the glass box of a signal Iamp
and put out the light, The engineer not seeing
the customary light, stopped the train and
would have secured the bees and taken them
on TO Windsor as memento had there been
time.
JULES VERNE lives at Amiens It was his GUS
tom to go to Paris once month for day or
two until year or two ago, when he was
wounded by pistol shot in the left leg He
still limps, cannot bend his leg, and is deprived
OF all exercise. He drives good deal Verne
does not speak English. He is great reader of
English literature, but has to make use of trans
ations.
Mrs. CLEVELAND, "the first lady of the land, "
does not consider herself musician, but her
touch on the piano is sweet and sympathetic.
and President Cleveland takes delight in her
playing. But Mrs. Cleveland is not mere orna-
ment to the White House. She holds daily cab
met meetings with the housekeeper and steward
and takes practical interest in all details per-
tanning to the household affairs
JOHN WILLARD Young is the youngest son of
the late Brigham Young's first wife He is about
43 years of age and has ten sons and ten daugh-
ters He says his father left an estate worth
about s., 100000 He willed $22OO to each one
of his children. Brigham Young has as yet no
monument. He lies buried near what was
called the Iron House., in Salt Lake City, and
his family have not been able to decide on a
fitting design to mark his grave
IT is related as a fact that when the relief
committee looked up the sufferers after recent
destructive storm in Dakota, a woman was
found who had lost all her clothing and had TO
borrow dress. In giving her new outfit she
was asked to state the articles needed-the first
on her list was hustle. The committee, being
iiSii' NtIt IlIlStt bNNleuIly not aware that
this was indispensable to the female equipment
and an evidence of high civilization
THERE arrived in San Francisco a few days
ago from japan tall, aristocratic woman clad
in black flowing robes bound at the waist by a
broad leather belt. She proved 10 be Sister
Olga a missionary of the Greek church i'm
Japan. She is the Countess Olga Pontatine
member of a noble Russian family Some wears
ago she was in attendance on the Czarina of
Russia, but finally entered a religious order
She is in poor health and is now on her way to
St Petersburg.
AT recent labor picnic in ST. Paul il was dis
covered that cigars sold at the refreshment
stand were made by non-union workmen, and
then there was general protest The commit
tee explained it had simply let the privilege for
the stand, and the proprietor said he had not
before known the difference between a union
and non-union made cigar, but il was no use
until the offending cigars were hustled out of
sight and replaced with union cigars Even
then some left the grounds and others refused
TO patronize the stand.
HER Won LADE, Of Gelsenheim one of the
chief vineyard and orchard owners on
the Rhine, has recently celebrated his roth
birthday anniversary On that occasion Prince
Bismarck wrote him with his own hand as fol-
lows: II envy You your favorte occupations in
the eve Of your life. The vegetable kingdom re-
pays our tender care in its behalf far more sat
isfactorily than politics. IL was the beau ideal
of my earlier wears TO Dicture myself as q e,ro,,